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When All Hell Breaks Loose
Cody Lundin
Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007
very helpful for planning
With the dollar being devalued, banks closing and oil prices rising I fear the inevitable. This book is quite helpful in helping myself and my family get organized with very helpful ideas.
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What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety (What to Do Guides for Kids)
Dawn Huebner
Magination Press, 2005
End of Worries
My daughter had chronic stomachaches which we had checked out medically. We were assured that they were stress related. This book was just what we needed. She loved being able to actually write in and draw in the book about her worries. It was engaging and empowering ...
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When Will There Be Good News?: A Novel
Kate Atkinson
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
A mystery that stretches the boundaries of the genre
Kate Atkinson's most recent novels have seemed, on the surface of things, like a radical departure for a Whitbread Award-winning novelist whose previous works were noted for their use of magical realism and their unusual family dynamics. With CASE HISTORIES, however, ...
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When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
Mohamed El-Erian
McGraw-Hill, 2008
A Must Buy Book For The Chaos Ahead..
This new world order of financial chaos scares me to death. It is certainly not about me personally but rather my family and what I will leave behind for them.
I bought Mohamed El-Erian's book around the same time I bought Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming ...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition
Heidi Murkoff, Sharon Mazel
Workman Publishing Company, 2008
Great resource for the pregnant
I ordered this book when I found out I was pregnant with my first child. Many of my family members had used earlier editions with their pregnancies. I was not disappointed. I like how it breaks up the chapters into months (weeks) of pregnancy. It goes into details ...
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The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets: How to Keep Your Portfolio Up When the Market is Down (Little ...
Peter D. Schiff
Wiley, 2008
just in time
This book must be flying off the shelves at Amazon's warehouses, and for good reason. It is a welcome diversion to the anger-fear-nausea that has churned within me over the past few weeks and months. This hot-off-the-presses book can guide me in constructive thought ...
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When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris
Little, Brown and Company, 2008
LOL
I laughed. Out loud. On an airplane reading this book. BTW... Also check out the interview he did with Jon Stewart about it. Hysterical.
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Zondervan, 2002
Clearly Defined
Written by psychologists and incorporating a Biblical perspective, Cloud and Townsend offer anecdotal, clinical and spiritual evidence as they explain the need for limits in our lives. Individual chapters address specific relational areas, e.g. family, marriage, ...
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Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)
Steve Solomon
New Society Publishers, 2006
Detailed, Valuable Advice
Gardening When It Counts is truly a book for our times. There's already a well-deserved buzz about this book among home gardeners I know. For one thing, it firmly refutes the supposed advantages of mulch gardening. In the burgeoning nationwide return to growing our own ...
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, ...
McGraw-Hill, 2002
Common sense isn't really all that common
I like this book a lot. Developed for business communication it has applications for many areas of life. I found it clear, instructive, insightful and relatively free of new-age doublespeak. I work in an ER and I communicate with angry people (sometimes including ...
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality ...
Paul T. Mason, Randi Kreger
New Harbinger Publications, 1998
BPD & Understanding
I have BPD and this book has shed a lot of light into the inner workings of my thoughts and feelings. So far this is the best book that I have found for people that have BPD & Non BPD's to read and help cope with the disorder. The best aspect of the book is the short ...
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
Knopf, 2008
Brilliant, Beautiful
I did not know Murakami's work at all before I purchased this book. I saw it in the running section at a bookstore and decided to give it a read. As I was purchasing the book the sales staff got very excited- turns out they were all huge fans. One person had even done ...
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When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the ...
Matthew Stein
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008
Preparing for "CHAOS" in the United States.
This manual guides one toward survival, when technology fails.....and it will, it's only a matter of time now. It has already begun. Most people cannot hunt, grow food, or recognize anything growing in the wild that would help them survive, if they needed to.
The ...
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
Amanda Ripley
Crown, 2008
The Unthinkable addressed
Part of a creating and supporting a survival mind set is the individual capacity to accurately perceive and assess potential problems before they become problematic. This book reaches into this realm of accurate assessments and dismantles the process--through real ...
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If Not Now, When?: Duty and Sacrifice in America's Time of Need
Colonel Jack Jacobs (retired), Douglas Century
Berkley Hardcover, 2008
The perfect Christmas present
This book is unique. No Medal of Honor recipient has ever written a book that is both powerful and hilarious at the same time. For five years I have been recommending Medal of Honor by Peter Collier as the ideal Christmas present for veterans, young people and students ...
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